US nuclear enrichment company Centrus Energy has completed its first new centrifuge for a multibillion-dollar expansion of uranium enrichment capacity and begun shipping the equipment from Tennessee for deployment in Ohio.

Centrus said that the centrifuge, manufactured at its Oak Ridge facility in Tennessee, would undergo final assembly in Ohio, where the company plans to install additional centrifuge cascades at its Piketon enrichment plant.

The first new enrichment capacity is expected to come online in 2029, with centrifuge manufacturing rates increasing as the expansion progresses, said the company.